A labyrinth of channels and islands prolific in forest and mangrove, the delta of the Orinoco is the second largest in South America after the Amazon’s. It is made up of forty main “caños” and many secondary ones, and continuous sedimentation keeps it growing.
Why it works for your clients
The Moriche palm spread throughout the region is the main staple food and raw material of the Warao, the local inhabitants, whose population is around 24,000. The typical Warao dwelling is the “palafito”, a pile house perched on Moriche trunks sunk in the mud; their masterpiece is the curiara, a dugout boat that is still the main transport between channels. Riding the caños in one, or walking knee-deep in mud behind a Warao guide, is a chapter no other Venezuelan destination offers.
How we operate it
Clients fly to Maturín, where our guide meets them for the road transfer to Boca de Uracoa and an hour by motor boat to the camp. Excursions run by motorised curiara with a naturalist guide and Warao boatmen. We choose the lodge by season and by the party’s tolerance for the truly remote.
